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1、 阳光家教网 英语学习资料第 1 页 共 23 页TEM8 人文知识内容总结2005 年的英语专业考试依照 2004 年新版的高校英语专业八级纲的有关规定，取消了快速阅读，取而代之的是人文知识，或者叫做文化常识题（General Knowledge） 。那么到底这个题型考的是什么题，又有哪些内容呢？ 其实，英语专业的教学大纲对这一项并没有具体要求，但是八级纲则有以下四点说明： 1. 能基本了解主要英语国家的地理、历史、现状、文化传统等。 2. 能初步具备英语文学知识。 3. 能初步具备英语语言学知识。 4. 考试时间为 10 分钟。 从纲里看，这一部分涉及到三个方面的内容：英美文学，英语语言
2、学和英语国家概况。 其中英美文学包括英国文学和美国文学。英国文学主要分为六个时期：1. Old and Medieval English Literature（中古英国文学） 。2. The Renaissance Period（文艺复兴时期） 。3. The Neoclassical Period（新古典主义时期） 。4. The Romantic Period（维多利亚时期） 。5. The Victorian Period（维多利亚时期） 。6. The Modern Period（现代时期） 。美国文学主要分为四个时期：1. The Literature Around the Revo
3、lution of Independence（独立革命前后的文学） 。2. American Romanticism（美国浪漫主义文学） 。3. American Realism（美国现实主义文学） 。4. American Modernism（美国现代主义文学） 。 语言学，考生不光要知道语言的本质还要掌握语音学，音位学，形态学，句法学，语义学和语言学的知识。 关于英语国家概况，英语专业的学生都会开设英美概况这门课程，但是专八考试的中需要考生了解的是英语国家概况，不光包括英国和美国，还有其他一些说英语的地区，包括爱尔兰概况，加拿大概况，澳大利亚概况和新西兰概况。 根据对样题和试题做出的具体分
4、析可以得出这样的结论：试题挖掘的并不是很深，但涉及面比较广，着重考查学生在英语专业领域的知识面。因此，我们可确定人文知识题的应对策略： 英语国家概况侧重英美、兼顾澳加新等国，掌握基本地理位置，通晓重大历史、政治事件，了解各国现状、文化传统。 英美文学着重掌握英美各时期的重要作家及其重要作品，以及基本文学概念。 语言学要熟练掌握基本概念，并能应用这些概念分析简单实例。最新专业八级人文知识自测GENERAL KNOWLEDGE There are ten multi-choice questions in this section. Choose the best answer to each q
5、uestion. Mark your answer on your colored answer sheet.31. _ is the worlds largest exporter of lamb and mutton.A. New Zealand B. Australia C. Canada D. America32. _ is popularly known in the West as the Land Down Under.A. Britain B. Canada C. Australia D. New Zealand33. Shakespeare wrote all the fol
6、lowing works EXCEPT _.A. Hamlet B. King Lear C. Othello D. Wuthering Heights 阳光家教网 英语学习资料第 2 页 共 23 页34. Mark Twain is most famous for _.A. poems B. novels C. dramas D. science fiction35. _ was NOT written by Charles Dickens.A. David Copperfield B. Oliver Twist C. Sons and Lovers D. A Tale of Two C
7、ities36. British prime minister normally serves a _ term.A. two-year B. five-year C. four-year D. six-year37. _ is sometimes called the birthplace of America.A. New England B. the South C. the West D. the Midwest38. Semantics is the study of _.A. linguistic competence B. language functions C. meanin
8、gs D. social behavior39. Which of the following is not generally believed to be area of linguistics?A. syntax B. semantics C. phonology D. etiology40. TG grammar was advanced by _.A. Searle B. Whorf C. Halliday D. Noam ChomskyWhich one of the four is NOT correct? A) English-speaking countries are UK
9、, USA, Canada, Barbados, etc. B) English-speaking countries are UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc. C) English-speaking countries are USA, Canada, Australia, the Republic of Ireland, etc. D) English-speaking countries USA, Canada, Australia, Egypt, etc. The famous short story The Fall of the Ho
10、use of Usher was written by A) Charles Dickens B) Edgar Allen Poe C) John Richardson (Canadian novelist) D) Henry Savery Which one of the following Ivy League Schools is situated in Connecticut? A) Yale University. B) Harvard. C) Princeton. D) Columbia. The branch of linguistics which studies the fo
11、rms of words is _ MORPHOLOGY. A) phoneme B) morpheme C) semantics D) morphology Who wrote a highly-acclaimed Novel Moby Dick? A) William James. B) Herman Melville. C) Ernest Hemingway. D) Cooper. What is the name of the Lake in northern Utah of the U.S.A.? A) Lake Michigan. B) Lake Superior. C) Lake
12、 Erie. D) the Great Salt Lake. Who wrote Pygmalion which later was transformed into the highly popular New York Broadway musical My Fair Lady in 1956? A) Edgar Allen Poe. B) Charles Lamb. C) George Bernard Shaw. D) Alfred Tennyson. Among the four pillars of English literature, who was NOT born and r
13、aised in Ireland? A) Jonathan Swift. B) Wfiliam Buffer Yeats. C) James Joyce. D) Robert Browning. Alaska lies in the of North America, stretching southward from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific. A) northwestern part B) southwestern part C) northeastern part D) southeastern part 阳光家教网 英语学习资料第 3 页 共 2
14、3 页Who is a satirist and the first writer in America to win the Nobel Prize in literature. A) Eugene O Neill B) Sinclair Lewis C) TS. Eliot D) Wdliam FanlknerThe automobile emerged as a commercially practical business and industrial venture during the _ decade of the 20th century. A.First B.second C
15、.thrid The following were the main Reformation leader except _ A. Martin Luther B. Martin Luther King C. John Calvin D. Henry Which of the following state refused to participate in the constitutional convention? A. Virginia B.Rhode Island C. NewYork D.Maryland美国文学部分In American literature, the eighte
16、en century was the age of the Enlightenment. was the dominant spirit. A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution Which statement about Franklin is not true? A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer. B. He was a scientist. C. He was a master of diplomacy. D. He was a Puritan. Who is regarded as the first American prose epic. A. Nature B. The Sca
